Can travel agents adapt?

From: New Straits Times | Date: September 23, 2004 | Copyright information

New Straits Times
09-23-2004
Can travel agents adapt?
Edition: Computimes; 2*
Section: Cover Story

MANY travel agents have been hard hit in their pockets in terms of commission since e-travel providers began offering their products and services direct to customers via online means.

What travel agents need to realise is that they need not feel challenged by the business-to-consumer model adopted by e-travel providers, but rather it is something they themselves should be looking into.
Travel agents are probably in the best position to initiate e- commerce, said Meraj K. Huda, principal ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Vanishing breed? (why travel agents face a shrinking market and increasing competition)(Survey of Travel and Tourism)
; TRAVEL agents are having a hard time. Traditionally...cut back the commission they pay to travel agents twice in the past two years, from 10...driven to the wall. The num- ber of travel agents in America is already on a distinct...
Travel agents facing change
; ...vacationers and corporate travelers. While travel agents remain optimistic 2003 will show a...amassed in 2000. It's not the first time travel agents have been hit by a sluggish economy...president of the American Society of Travel Agents, an Alexandria, Va.-based industry...
Travel agents can help travelers through maze of airline changes
; ...Recorder 04-08-2005 Before the '90s, travel agents were very popular to go to when making...speedy service and discounted rates. Travel agents were used to the commissions they would...times have changed for the consumer, travel agents and airlines. Travel agents are ...
Death of a salesman: travel agents. (travel agent profits declining)(Business)
; ...optimistic. So you would think that travel agents should be sitting back and enjoying...are tied to, or owned by, operators. Travel agents make their money from commissions...airlines, led by Delta, capped the fees travel agents could earn on domestic flights. Instead...
PROTEST TO GO; TRAVEL AGENTS ARE ANGRY ABOUT LOWER COMMISSIONS.(Business)
; ...contributed to this report. New York -- Travel agents nationwide temporarily closed up shop...president of the American Society of Travel Agents, which asked some 15,000 travel agents to honor the two-hour protest between...
Travel agents feeling the heat
; THE future of Britain's travel agents was thrown into doubt yesterday...has said it will stop paying travel agents 7 per cent commission on sales...the shake-up, it is feared that travel agents may make holidaymakers pay a...
Travel agents bet future on consumers stomaching fees
; ...FRANCISCO -- For years, people banked on travel agents to book their flights, car rentals...dawn of 1998, an estimated half of travel agents on the West Coast have begun charging...and more consumers will opt to bypass travel agents, save the money and buy tickets directly...
Travel Agents Seek Survival Strategy as Airlines Cut Commissions.
; ...Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 23 -- Travel agents -- worried that they're facing a permanent...flights and $50 for domestic travel. Travel agents reeled then. Now, realizing that airlines...altogether, they're starting to panic. Travel agents are particularly incensed with ...
LOCAL TRAVEL AGENTS TRYING TO RECOUP LOST INCOME MEANS CONSUMERS PAYING MORE
; Local travel agents, pressured by the airlines that...for airline tickets bought through travel agents. The agents believe customers will...would eliminate commissions for travel agents who sell tickets in the United States...
Travel Agents: Fast-Growing Industry Also Stressful to Newcomers. (Originated from The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville)
; ...excursions to Switzerland. Indeed, most travel agents enjoy their jobs. But, they caution...According to state labor experts, travel agents are among Florida's fastest-growing...spokesman for the American Society of Travel Agents, based in Alexandria, Va. Loucks predicts...